பெக்கர் USMLE offers a number of decent products for medical students who are taking the USMLE exams. The company’s options include live, live-online, and self-study courses, none of which are done especially well. Becker’s self-study option (eCoach) படி 1 and Step 2CK exams is an abbreviated course that includes over 200 hours of multimedia material, eBooks, access to the Step 1 question bank, audio lectures and summaries, all in an online self-study format.

Its live online prep course consists of a USMLE Step 1 review that includes 275 hours of live online lectures, 30 hours of integrated cases, access to eCoach, a question bank, textbooks, and one NBME exam with assessment.

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1. Live Online Classes

படி 1 students who want a more structured course can sign up for 10 weeks of daily live online virtual classes (in the evenings and on weekends for a total of 275 hours) மற்றும் 30 hours of live online Integrated Cases with an expert medical faculty member. This course also includes access to eCoach support for 9 மாதங்கள், which would be helpful if the support was actually competent.

2. Annotated Audio Lectures and Video Introductions

Becker’s multimedia instruction covers more than 200 hours of material in its review. Medical school faculty discuss the study material contained in the lectures in great detail.

The “Fastplay mode” allows students to view annotated audio lectures at regular, 1.25x and 1.5x speed, which kind of shows the lack of engaging content if it needs to be sped up so much.

3. Question Bank

Becker has a question bank with more than 2,000 exam-like questions. While the bank is decent, you’ll pay about $100-$300 depending on how many months you want to subscribe, which is a pain for people who want this included in the course price.

Detailed explanations help you understand which answers are correct and why, and your results are tracked so you can see your progress and spend the most time on your weaker areas.

4. Free Resources and Demos

Becker’s courses are more expensive than average, but you can take advantage of offers to sample the Step 1 eCoach Demo for free.

This is a way for students to check out the content and layout of the course to see if it is a good match for their learning style without paying the obnoxiously high price for Becker’s offering.

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1. விலை

Becker’s Live Online course is priced at $3,949, making this prep course a large investment and one of the most expensive options among the competition, by quite a bit. For what you get, it’s overpriced, especially considering the lack of any type of pass guarantee. It’s not anything we would recommend, unless your last name is Gates or Buffett.

If you are within commuting distance to one of their live review courses, the live review is the least expensive (without hotel room) மணிக்கு $3,399, but let’s be serious, who wants to pay that much for just the course.

2. No Money-back Guarantee

The “Becker Promise” offers students who failed to pass the USMLE after enrolling in Becker’ USMLE Step 1 and Live Online Review Courses the option to repeat the applicable review course for $1,500 off the regular retail price. There are many requirements and stipulations, which makes it difficult to know whether or not you will qualify for the Promise. Please see their website for additional details, but we’re going to guess that you won’t qualify for this terrible guarantee.

3. Interactive Chapter Review Questions

After each online video, students get an opportunity to answer review questions to gauge how well they understand the content of the lecture. This feature helps make students aware of any weak areas so they know when to go back and revisit specific material, but the way the information is presented isn’t ideal. Other courses do it better, trust us.

4. 3D Graphics and Animations

Becker uses technology to enhance studying and comprehension of complex processes and concepts with full-color illustrations, motion graphics and 3D animations, but the presentation is extremely confusing. Becker went overboard on this, making its course more expensive without adding any tangible value.

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Becker USMLE’s online study material and live-online courses are disorganized, but take advantage of technological advances in graphics and animations. எனினும், the cost is passed off to the consumer, as this offering is out of many people’s price range.

The main drawback of Becker’s courses are the price and the quasi guarantee that it tries to pass off as an actual way to get your money back. Although students will get some quality materials, Becker’s courses do include an almost overwhelming amount of information. For what you’re paying, you really should get a better organized offering, a good guarantee, and something that justifies such an expensive asking price.

It really just depends on your schedule and learning style. With the live online classes you attend the live online lectures at a specific time each class period and attend like a virtual class. If you have the open schedule and like a structured study system you should go for the live-online. If you are someone who learns better on your own and are very self-motivated and willing to make your own schedule and stick to it go with the self-study option. Good luck!